There is a national program that identifies duplicate names of registered voters from among states that belong to it. It is called the Interstate Crosscheck Program run by the Secretary of State of Kansas.

Here are two sites that explain how it works. The first is a slide presentation of the Program. The second is a sample copy of the recent contract with Pennsylvania.

The program, run by state officials, combines voter lists from member states and locates matches of voters with similar information such as first name, middle initial, last name, birth date, and in states that keep such records, the last four digits of the person’s Social Security number.

The site does nothing more that that. It works with the data supplied by the member state and cooperating employees.

The Interstate Crosscheck Program does not investigate, or prosecute voters who come up as matching a voter in another state. That is left up to the state to do.

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Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Congress-woman Carol Shea-Porter, and Congress-woman Ann Kuster are all named in an FEC complaint filed  against Catalist by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT).

(WashingtonExaminer) Catalist, the Washington, D.C.-based firm at the heart of the allegations, was accused of “providing candidates and federal party committees data and list-related products and services at below-market rates, constituting excessive, source-prohibited, and unreported in-kind contributions” to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Fifteen pages of candidate committees are listed in the complaint.

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Uh-oh, this is going to leave a mark.  Carly Fiorona keeps asking “What is Hillary’s main achievement?” – and it may be “A Big Whopper with a straight face”:

Hillary Clinton’s Top Aides Knew from First Minutes that Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack, E-mails Disclose

From the very first moments of the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides were advised that the compound was under a terrorist attack. In fact, less than two hours into the attack, they were told that the al-Qaeda affiliate in Libya, Ansar al-Sharia, had claimed responsibility.

These revelations and others are disclosed by a trove of e-mails and other documents pried from the State Department by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The FOIA litigation focuses on Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in the government actions before, during, and after the Benghazi attack, in which Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was murdered by terrorists. Also killed in the attack were State Department information management officer Sean Smith, and two former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, who were contract security employees and who had fought heroically, saving numerous American lives. At least ten other Americans were wounded, some quite seriously.

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From the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):  Warner felon caught with silenced sub-machine pistol, drugs

A car stopped by police for weaving along Route 28 on Thursday led to the arrest of a Warner man on parole who had a silenced sub-machine pistol, a shotgun and drugs.  Gordon Potter, 35, was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail following his arraignment on Friday morning in 10th Circuit Court—Salem Division. Potter was charged with felon in possession of firearms, being in possession of heroin and prescription pills, and making a false report to law enforcement…

During the conversation, the detective spotted a large hunting knife tucked into the side of the seat next to Potter. Police said that Potter became upset with the detective and refused to comply with commands. That prompted several back-up units to respond to the parking lot, police said. Police said officers found a small amount of heroin and prescription pills in Potter’s possession. Potter gave police a false name, but he and Drouin were taken into custody without incident, according to police. Officers searched the car and found a Kel-Tec 5.56 silenced sub-machine pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun in the vehicle.Deputy police Chief Shawn Patten said the type of weapons – especially the silenced pistol – drew concerns from officers given Potter was a convicted felon.

Let’s count the ways:

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Today, I finally get to beat Steve in putting up GrokTALK! – mostly because he’s still in a bus coming home from CPAC 2105.  Speaking of which:

• Segment 1 Part 1 – Grokster Steve talks with Mike and Skip about CPAC and what he observed
• Segment 1 Part 2 – Our Education Updater, Jorge Mesa-Tejada comes on to talk about Classroom size and Teacher – Student ratios (and that those “para-professional” that are hired for a single reason….never seem to leave
• Segment 2 & 3 – NH State Rep Max Abramson comes in to give us an update on what’s happening in the NH House and other sundry matters (after all, we ARE the ADD blogger bunch!)
• Segment 4 – NH State Rep Josh Moore comes in to yak with us all about NH Dept of Ed’s Commissioner Virginia Barry and her issuance of a memo that all but strips parental rights in favor of “The State”

          Steve                                                                  Jorge Mesa-Tejada

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I just had to chuckle when I read this headline – when are too many letters just silliness?

LGBT acronym not inclusive enough for Wesleyan University, which insists on LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM

…expialidocious!

This is no joke, notes Jennifer Kabbany at College Fix, by which she obviously means it is not intended to be funny. Wesleyan University, she observes (via Powerline’s Steven Hayward), “is now making sure every sexual fetish, whim, kink, orientation, impulse and desire … gets its own capital letter in the ever-growing acronym of the formerly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer community.”

The new formulation is a mouthful. Repeat after me: LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM, which stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderf**k, Polyamourous, Bondage/Disciple, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism.”

Here is the official word from the university’s Office of Residential Life regarding an on-campus facility — a safe house, if you will — called “Open House” that accommodates all … er — “comers”:

Talk about jumping the shark! Heck, how would you design a flag with all that sub-sub-subsetting? Do they really expect ANYone outside of their clique(s) to really want to make sense of that, much less remember it?  Certainly not me – I have FAR better ways to waste my time (and I’ll admit, my memory isn’t as sterling as it once was to boot)  Hey, I have an idea:

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Heh!  I’m not sure I’d want to take that task on – enumerating those kinds of rules.  You see, standing on solid foundations are just so much easier to navigate through life – you never have to worry where you stand.  Or what your stances are.  RINOs?  The moderate middle?  Squishes?  The “just sounds right” crowd?  To me, that would be MUCH harder – just imagine really trying to keep track of your stances / votes of yesterday, last week, last month, last year, last decade and all the times inbetween.  I certainly couldn’t do it – nor would I want to.  And then in some kind of discussion, trying to defend what I can’t remember because I’ve flip-flopped more times John Kerry?  So I thought this at Conservative Review, outlining the attributes of a RINO, was kinda of amusing….

It becomes clearer every day that there are not only two parties in Washington, D.C., but there are also two wings of the Republican Party. Conservatives who fight for limited government, fewer taxes, less regulation, more freedom, devolving federal power to the states, prudent immigration, and constitutional principles…So what guides these powerful liberal Republicans?

Here are the 8 RINO rules:

1. Bait and Switch
This can also be referred to as “politics over principle” or “don’t fight now, fight later”…

2. Show Me the Money
Votes win elections and money is used to get votes, therefore simple calculus tells a RINO that money is the most important thing ever…

3. Fear
This one is simple – they instill fear in you the voter. You don’t want a Democrat in office – do you?

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